*Sleeping during the night. Having little children come in and a sweet sweet selfless husband who gets up with them every time.
*A husband who works two jobs to provide for his family. In the nearly ten years of marriage, a bachelors degree, a PhD, three and almost four children, five separate moves (including one hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of miles away from family), we have never gone without.
*A man who without nudging or even encouragement holds monthly father/son father/daughter interviews so he can bear his testimony to his children individually. Our kids love fast Sunday.
*A brilliant brilliant man who I get to share eternity with.
*Getting to share my life with a man who knows this life is all about families. Who says on a irregular basis that his job is to be a psychologist, but he's really a Dad. That's what he identifies with most.
yeah, yeah I know. I am the luckiest person in this whole wide world. Happy Fathers Day Klint. I love you.
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Finding joy in the moments of motherhood. Daily moments that: *made me SMILE *appreciate the sweet three kids that have been entrusted to me *feel joy in my decision to raise a family and be a stay at home mother *recognize the Lord’s hand in helping me to be successful as a Latter Day Saint woman and mother
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Daily Joyful Moments
Joyful Moments
Because of those "funkish" moments that I experience every once and while, I want to do as Elder Ballard counseled a few years ago and find joy in the moments of motherhood. To help me do that, I am going to try and write four motherly things that either (1) made me smile (2) appreciate the sweet three kids that have been entrusted to me (3) feel joy in my decision to raise a family and be a full time mom (4) recognize the Lords hand in helping me to be successful as a Latter Day Saint woman and mother.
I have to add that my life isn't perfect. I hope that if anyone ever comes across this blog and reads it (which I am doubtful of) and compares themselves to it, or feels guilt or bad about themselves that they'll realize these are the HIGH points of my life, not my every waking moments. I have terrible mothering moments all the time. And that's the problem, that's why I wanted to start this. I feel so much guilt (which I'm trying to only save for sin now) about the things I do wrong or could have done better, or didn't do at all, that it can be crippling on those funkish days. I'm not trying to pretend that my life is perfect or everything is rosy. Opposition in all things right? We have to have the bad to know the good, the sad to know the happy. Don't compare your low points with my high points. Deal?
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